With a new campaign on Congress Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) responds to intense efforts made Türkiye buy new F-16 fighters and upgrade kits from United States.

Specifically, the HALC is asking all of its members to write to their deputies and senators urging them to take action and demand that Turkey not buy F-16s while it continues the same revisionist policies that threaten Greece with war.

In fact, the letter also mentions the new Turkish defense minister, who has sworn to protect the interests of his country and the Blue Motherland. As is commonly noted, this is a revisionist doctrine expressing Ankara’s expansionist ambitions in the Aegean.

Recall that in a recent interview with CNN, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan mentioned about Turkey that “it is forming an independent foreign policy, but one (policy) that allows us to have a constructive relationship with it, even in the defense sector. where President Erdogan’s main request to President Biden is that the US provide the F-16 fighter jets that President Biden said he would like to provide.”

Letter from HALC Members to Members of Congress

Turkey is stepping up its efforts to procure F-16s and upgrade kits from the United States, and we need you to act.

Türkiye continues to threaten Greece with war. In fact, Turkey’s new defense minister has just “sworn to protect the interests of his country and the Blue Motherland” – a revisionist doctrine expressing Ankara’s expansionist ambitions in the Aegean.

From maps labeling the Greek islands as Turkish to President Erdogan’s threats to invade Greece, it’s clear that Turkey has no intention of upholding international law or upholding the standards of behavior expected of a NATO ally.

Congress has the power to stop the sale. We need members of Congress to take action and demand that as long as Turkey continues to threaten Greece with war, it must not and cannot buy F-16s from the United States.

Source: APE/MEB